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  What does proxy mean? For a native English speaker, it might be a...
Climate, Outreach, People, Society

Keeping a Norwegian scientific language alive – for scientists and the public

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date March 16, 2017
Ingjald Pilskog
Tagged english science, language of science, norwegian and science | 1 Comment |
Use Twitter to communicate your research! Use social media to explain your latest results!...
Climate, Outreach, People, Society

Twitter for learning in research

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date February 8, 2017
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged monsoon research, monsoon research hashtag, outreach, research and social media, scicomm, science communication, Social media in science, Twitter in science | Leave a comment |
When I get old, I want to be a skiing grandma. For that dream...
Climate, Earth, Society

Future skiing conditions in Norway: Will I be a skiing grandma?

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date December 21, 2016
Kristine Flacké Haualand
Tagged Global warming, Norway, Precipitation, skiing conditions, skiing grandmas, snow, snow depth, snow in the future, temperature | Leave a comment |
How can such landscapes not change the local climate. Earth system models are best tools we have to study the climate and how...
Climate, Society

Politics: the forgotten climate driver

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date December 16, 2016
Ingjald Pilskog
Tagged Climate change, climate change and politics, climate migration, politics, urban climate | Leave a comment |
Early last week, climate PhD students from the Nordic countries met in Upsete, deep in...
News

Debating social media in the Norwegian mountains.

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date September 30, 2016
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged climate PhD, climate scicomm, Nordic Climate PhD conference 2016, PhD debate, scicomm, social media, Twitter scicomm, Upsete | Leave a comment |
Weather and climate shape cultures and the lives of people everywhere. People have been...
Climate, Society, Systems

Climate detectives: What a Historical Climatologist does

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date September 21, 2016
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged acclimatization, Bombay, George Adamson, Historical climatology, Lucretia West, Monsoon, monsoon onset, Mountstuart Elphinstone | 1 Comment |
The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Southeast Asia killed more than 200,000 people. The...
Earth, Outreach, Sea, Society

Communicating tsunami risks is key to saving lives

Author Birgit Zipf Date May 3, 2016
Birgit Zipf
Tagged East Africa Summer School, risk communication, risk perception, Tsunami | Leave a comment |
Meningitis is a deadly disease that causes massive damage to the human brain. Young...
Climate, Health, People, Society, Systems

How wind brings death to West Africa

Author Frank Brenner Date April 28, 2016
Frank Brenner
Tagged Climate, East Africa Summer School, Infectious Disease, Meningitis, Sub-Saharan Africa | Leave a comment |
    Everyone waited for radio broadcasting to crumble, but then something incredible happened....
News, Outreach

‘DIY’ Journalism for Scientists through Scientific Podcasting

Author Ashley Braunthal Date April 20, 2016
Ashley Braunthal
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Clean fresh water is essential for human life, but less than 1% of all...
Earth, People, Society

Protecting the people’s water supply in Mexico City

Author Emilio Sanchez Date April 15, 2016
Emilio Sanchez
Tagged aquifer vulnerability, groundwater, hydraulic tomography, Mexico City, modeling | Leave a comment |
  Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing society today. To understand...
Climate, Outreach, Sea, Society

Do you want to become a climate researcher?

Author Johanna Englhardt Date April 8, 2016
Johanna Englhardt
Tagged Climate, East Africa Summer School, history, Modelling, science communication | Leave a comment |
Sometimes we hear people saying: “It’s the little things that matter most”. Indeed, only...
Air, Climate, Earth, People, Physics, Society

My weather app shows rain at a sunny day!?

Author Lucas Höppler Date March 18, 2016
Lucas Höppler
Tagged flash-flood, Flood, Floods, hydroelectric, innovation, little things, Micro Rain Radar, MRR, suddenly occuring rain, umbrella, weather app | 1 Comment |
Is mowing the lawn destined to become a thing of the past? (Photography by...
Biology, Climate, Land, Society

Lazy lawn? Not in my back yard!

Author Richard Beason Date March 1, 2016
Richard Beason
Tagged Artificial grass, biodiversity loss, gardens, greenwash, lazy lawns | Leave a comment |
Professor Mark Maslin is based in the Geography Department at University College London. He...
Outreach, People, Society

Unique London Training of Environmental Scientists

Author ClimateSnack Date February 26, 2016
ClimateSnack
Tagged Doctoral Training Programme, Education, NERC, Training, transferrable skills | Leave a comment |
Sometimes I read a scientific paper and struggle to pay attention.  I have to...
Outreach, Society

On Reading

Author Matt Archer Date January 11, 2016
Matt Archer
Tagged Communication, reading, science writing | 1 Comment |
In the second annual UEA Xmas SciSnack group post, we have chosen to explore...
Air, Biology, Climate, Culture, Life, People, Sea, Society

Disastrous Disaster Movies

Author ClimateSnack UEA Date December 17, 2015
ClimateSnack UEA
Tagged atmosphere, Climate, movies, Ocean, Weather | 1 Comment |
  The SedWhat Podcast Episode 01: The Climate Messenger – Dr. Erlend Moster Knudsen...
Climate, Culture, Earth, Ice, News, Outreach, People, Sea, Society

The SedWhat Podcast – Episode 01: The Climate Messenger

Author Ashley Braunthal Date December 4, 2015
Ashley Braunthal
Tagged CONFERENCE, COP21, POLETOPARIS | Leave a comment |
Do you know where your science story burns to engage your target audience? Did...
News

Event: Where the Science Story Burns

Author ClimateSnack Date October 22, 2015
ClimateSnack
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The denial of climate science is wide spread. Most people have been confronted with...
Climate, People, Society

How to respond to climate science denial

Author Karin van der Wiel Date October 5, 2015
Karin van der Wiel
Tagged Climate change, Climate science denial, Global warming, greenhouse gases, Inoculation theory, science communication, Sticky Science, Uncertainty | Leave a comment |
In the 1920s your fridge could kill you. A range of explosive, flammable and...
Air, Chemistry, Climate, People, Society

CFCs and Ozone: The Hole Story

Author Mike Newland Date September 7, 2015
Mike Newland
Tagged Antarctica, atmosphere, CFC, Farman, Midgley, Ozone, ozone hole, pollution, Stratosphere | Leave a comment |
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